Applications Open for Youth4Regions Media Programme

Deadline: 31 August 2017

The European Commission is conducting a competition entitled “Youth4Regions Media Programme” amongst media students across Europe. The European Commission’s Directorate General for Regional and Urban Policy seeks to encourage students in journalism to communicate on concrete projects co- funded by the European Regional Development and Cohesion Funds.

The lucky winners will be offered a chance to come to Brussels as a part of the media pool communicating on one of the major events of the year: the European Week of Regions and Cities taking place in Brussels on 9–12 Oct 2017.

Objectives

Specific objectives include:

• fostering young journalistic productions to promote knowledge of the European Union;
• creating a space for debate, share values and ways of working;  enhancing the links between European institutions and youth.

Eligibility Criteria

• All students in journalism based in the EU are invited to participate in the competition.
• Minimum age requirement: 18 years old.
• All selected young journalists will be requested to provide a copy of their student card to prove their registration in a journalism school/university.
• The short articles must be at least 400 words and may not exceed 1000 words.
• Only written contributions will be accepted.
• Applications must be submitted in English.
• Team applications will not be accepted, only individual applications are accepted.
• The European Commission reserves the right to use the articles submitted in presentation materials, with the media, and to reproduce them in any form.
• The Jury will be composed by officials from the European Institutions, working in the media/journalism/communication fields.
• The jury’s decision is final and without appeal. The jury reserves the right to reject any entry that does not comply with the requirements of the competition.

How to Apply

Applications must be submitted via given website.

For more information, please visit Call for Applications.